The point is that most of these snarky elites who travel around the country and the globe smugly patting themselves on the back for their perceived contributions to the cause, generally have the biggest carbon footprints of anybody.

Here’s a little piece from The Nature Conservancy to give some perspective.

It’s not even worth a chuckle. People whose work means that they need to fly to places shouldn’t have to give up said work in order to prove to a incandescent light bulb hoarder that they are serious about reducing a carbon footprint. There are plenty of ways to reduce your net carbon footprint without living your constrained life.

“There are plenty of ways to reduce your net carbon footprint without living your constrained life.”

That’s the whole point of the article, cassandra_m.

All of your “plenty of ways to reduce your carbon footprint” add up to nothing if you fly around in jets.

I’m not knocking it. I’m just pointing out fact. It’s all about measured tonnage of carbon output.

Just because some people fly on jets as part of their way of monetarily enriching themselves doesn’t negate the fact that they are adding to the size of their own carbon footprints, and no amount of planting trees or buying phoney-baloney carbon credits can change this.

To use an analogy I once heard….You can’t lose weight by paying someone else to lose it for you.

FBH – your point is similar to the facile argument that if you think taxes should be raised, you can always voluntarily pay more taxes. Taxes and fixing global warming are team sports, not individual accomplishments.